Applications Open for Communities to Host Rural Fellows in Summer 2022
Each summer, college students from around the Midwest live and work in rural Nebraska communities as part of the Rural Fellows program. During the 10-week program, students work with local leaders and business owners to meet locally identified goals for community improvement. Applications are now open for communities to host Rural Fellows for summer 2022.
USDA Designates Four Nebraska Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas
Courtesy U.S. Drought Monitor
#NField Observations for October 2021
This week, Ben Beckman discusses various fall grazing management strategies using cool-season and warm-season plants.
USDA Reports on Rising Land Values and County-Level Cash Rent Estimates for Nebraska in 2021
Preston Keres, USDA (Flickr/Public Domain)
Pasture and Forage Minute: Managing Prussic Acid, Yucca and Fall Irrigation
Herbicides are most effective against yucca infestations when applied in spring or summer on individual plants or small patches.
Pasture and Forage Minutes: Fall Grazing and Pasture Management
Stalk grazing this fall should begin with corn residue and then transition to grain sorghum stovers, as corn leaves will blow out of fields within a couple months post-harvest, whereas grain sorghum leaves usually remain attached through winter and into early spring.
Panhandle Learning Agricultural Network (PLAN) Aims to Increase Farmer Adoption of Field-based Sensors
On the left, a comparison of participating fields in 2020 (a) and 2021 (b). On the right, total area of participating fields in 2020 (c) and distribution of individual field sizes in 2021 (d).
Winter Field Pea as a Fall-planted Broadleaf Crop for the Panhandle?
Figure 1. Field peas are now being tested in Nebraska as a winter crop at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Panhandle Research and Extension Center.